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Asp.Net Shopping Cart Persistence Design

LA Guy — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:05:09 GMT

Hi all,

What methods are people using to manage the Shopping Cart before the Customer actually Checks Out ?
The user can still be anonymous and not register prior to checking out.

1.Use Session
2. Persist to Table with a Key (???)
3. Use Asp.Net Session Persistence in the Web. Config (I haven't used this )

1. My current code is saving the Cart Items in a Dataset with a Header Info Table and a Cart Items Table.
The cart is saved in Session("dsCart")

The cart is cleaned up (removed) when the Order is completed.

Issues: Since this dependent on Session ( my current default Timeout is 20 minutes )
the cart will disappear.

2. If the cart is saved to a Database Table then this could be avoided but now I need to somehow Identify the
Saved Cart by some SessionID / Guid associated with the "anonymous" customer at this point.

3. Anyone doing this for a Shopping Cart ?

Peace, LA Guy

Asp.net

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SubSonic Code Generation Opinions ?

LA Guy — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:08:08 GMT

Hi all,

I've been using Subsonic to generate my Business Layer based on my backend Sql Server DB.

I wanted to see what other developers are using.

SubSonic vs CodeSmith NetTiers vs Lokhta CSLA Frameworks

I tried looking at NetTiers last year but it was very complex for me.

I didn't try CSLA.

Any comments ?

Peace, LA Guy